How This Gaming PC Company Destroyed Itself in One Night 

oof.

Damn, you know you fucked up when you get Kris to pump out a video within 1 day instead of his usual 6 months

I knew he was full of himself but to learn he has less followers than his "threshold" to win one of his free PC's is gold.

"Fairly certain that is illegal" Yep. Sweepstakes must have the following conditions: 1) randomized outcome 2) free public access Every legit Sweepstakes you will see a small, free entryway to the Sweepstakes (usually mailing a letter to the company). Without this regulation it's illegal for either being an illegal lottery or false advertisement.

It's so sad they fell off so quickly the second they started sponsoring big names with big logos and probably big sales. I think that a streamer with a workshop, an awesome cam setup for close ups, on-the-fly tutorials and really cool tools for engravings and such, is a fantastic untapped market. There's a reason "how it's made" videos are popular forever.

I'm a now former Mod and Ambassador of Artesian builds, they removed my mod because I backed KiaPiaa and the 2 others poor streamers that got done dirty, I then terminated my contract. I'm actually embarrassed to say I own a PC from them. Then the 3 attempted apologizes from the CEO were laughable. Also the company's FTB has been Forfeited according to records discovered by another person on Twitter. I spent 20 months with the company as a Ambassador and was mod for over a year. I was one of the first 50 followers on their Twitch, nights where the CEO Noah was streaming with no viewers except me. I kept him company so he wasn't alone. I feel like I've wasted over a year of my life dealing with them. Sorry for the rant, just wanted to give my input from someone who's watched them grown from nothing to something.

That's nuts. If these things are happening to creators, I can only imagine what they're doing to their customers.

11:00 - If she never signed a agreement giving Artesian Builds ownership of the artwork she made, she still owns the exclusive rights to her artwork. I assume this because she said she was never given an employee contract to sign. As far as I can tell, she would be considered as an independent contractor. I would suggest she seek legal advice since Artesian Builds is selling her artwork without her (current) permission.

He seems like someone who normally would have started an energy drink company but for whatever reasons started a PC company.

Daaaaaaaaaaaang. No 👏 punches 👏 pulled 👏. Great job putting all of this together in such a short amount of time, very curious to see how this all plays out in the end. Is it the end of this company, or do they get a redemption arc??

"Giving someone with one follower the same treatment as an otv member" was certainly moving, massive props.

Love this for you Kristofer! Thanks for always shedding some light on some of these phony companies shorting CCs and customers alike. Karma is coming for them.

I've seen Linus go live with no cam, as a test setting up new equipment and actually pull 5x his viewership.

Noah's ego when putting himself on the same pedestal as Linus, regarding PC tech and fame, is just pure comedy gold and denial. How the heck is Linus' LMG not a pc company, he started with pc tech and has been doing this since 2007. Even people who are not that much into PCs have probably heard of Linus and his channels on RU-vid, hardly anyone outside of the pc and tech world allegedly knows or has heard of Noah and his company.

👀 I might need a new pc now lol

I can't get enough of this story. Even from people like you I've never heard of before.

This was video was well done! GOOD FOR YOU FOR CALLING NO*H OUT! It's also so awesome how lots of companies are giving away a PC to ANYONE - no conditions. This is so sick. Good job, you are badass - I hope you know that.

I can't even explain the rage I felt when you said "he doesn't even like pc's". I'm jealous of people who can afford to build a pc and give it away. I wish I could do that for small streamers, or low income families, or people in general. Noah makes me sick. thank you for using your voice sir.

I revisited this because of old Crystal Clear VODs mentioning this. You are a real treasure Kris!

Ok, I'm not a guy for drama or videos like this... but this was great! You made this as respectfully as you could while still giving facts without sugar coating. And props for not undeservingly outing the company as a whole but revealing the actual problem within.

To be 100% clear. there were moderators in their stream who were cheering Noah on about rerolling and calling out the same shit. A few actually did ask multiple times for clarification of rules as thats not what they were told, and they were ignored in the chat. idk if they had other options to contact and got ignored there, but they tried while they were live and got ignored. Not all of the people there are in the clear, but a lot are.

Should have placed those "limitations" before opening the givaway. At least JayzTwoCents himself built and sent her a beast of a machine because he felt bad for her...

Somepeople might hate it, but learning to build your own PC is a fun experience.

I'm more happy with my HP prebuilt than ever before, 2.5 years and not a single crash, just gaming (unlike my previous custom computer wich costed me like 1200 euros and sucked ass)

Kris and LunaOni's banter is always hilarious. That was a nice little uplift during the weight and heaviness of this video.

You should check out their keyboard products OOF

You earned my subscription with this vid. Love the honesty and humble attitude. Looking forward to more content

Noah: "This is the company LTT would be if they were s PC company" Linus: "I'm sorry, who?"

Noah would be perfect for a job at Blizzard/Activision before Microsoft

Its just sad to know if Noah doesn't step down as CEO, the only way to punish him is prematurely boycotting the company and risk losing the jobs of other people who weren't involved in this mess

Glad i came across your channel. Nice to see a stand up person like this. Amazing.

Great video, popped up randomly in my RU-vid Feed. I’ve been a creator for 7 years, I am a Twitch Partner and a small streamer. If a company treats you as “your not good enough because of your numbers” for a giveaway or even to work with you this is a huge red flag. If the company is smart they work with all sizes of creators, it extends their reach exponentially. Work with business as a creator that scale the mutual benefits accordingly. Watch out for companies trying to take advantage. Keep at it creators & much love! ❤️🤘

I've been in IT for over a decade, built dozens and dozens of computers used by Intel and nVidia at events and cons when I was with a very large system builder. Now an enterprise level system admin managing over 30,000 workstations and 5,000 servers and I think I know my stuff. I've watched a few streams and had to correct Noah numerous times. I have a couple buddies who got machines from Artesian and they were poorly built, just trash. Noah thought he was a walking tech wikipedia and wrong about the basics.

I've never even heard of this Noah guy, and I practically live on RU-vid and I also like PC related content.

man you came a long way. i’m happy for you ☺️❤️ used to love watching your pc flipping vids on some gary vee shit. Keep it up man

Damb, thank you for the detailed informative content homie, you're humble, wholesome, and amazing at what you do. Thank you for keeping everything real and 100% with us! I had no idea this was going on, I'll be sure to let my streamer friends know!

Very well done Kris, thank you for this and for giving so many people a voice.

Apparently their pc is known to have many issues including overheating and blue screens frequently. Another youtuber bought a rig from them not too long about, a 5950x and a founders edition 3080 ti. The youtuber was charged $10000 for the whole system that was not custom looped mind you Small edit: it was a evga 3090

Excellent Drama Documentary Kristofer! Really great job. Hope you continue to deep dive scummy business predators!

I have to say, ive watched your videos for several years, since you built the computer for a friend, Maybe your brother, and it touched my heart. It's truly nice to see, you striving and growing. You have my Sub my thumbs up, and keep doing you. Neveer like them!

Love watching content creators like you who are more than aware of human emotions and cues that alot of people act like they dont exist. Yet again great job kris :)

Artesian Builds just tweeted this. "At this point we are examining a potential employee-led buy-out of the company. Thank you for your support."

Candie’s art is bomb!! I’m so glad you shared their work. Hope they’ve found a place that appreciates the talent.

The employees should go public and then contact the Department of Labor. There’s more strength in numbers.

Definitely a legal issue when changing the giveaway requirements after starting a giveaway. Love the new studio. Looks very similar to Harris's old studio (stairs, windows, and hallway).

heard about this last night, disgusting display of character from the company, so glad they finally got exposed and people know the truth about these guys.

KrostoferYee, I am new, but love the way you spoke direct and honest ..I subscribed because you mention "behind the scenes" honesty right there,, you got stones man, VERY COOL

You made a great point I just heard about this today and I'll admit in my mind I was already hating on artesian builds as a whole (haven't heard of them until today im not much into PC stuff but like the knowledge of jaystwocents linus etc) but you made a great point about the CEO doing this to himself and his employees are almost hostages so thank you for keeping me in check I'm instantly subscribing to your channel! You're a well mannered respectable and honest person keep it up bud!

Thanks for doing this research and pulling this together so fast so that people like me that are totally out of the loop can stay updated on what’s going on!

I read about this earlier. I'm glad Intel stepped in and pressured them. I'd never heard of the company before and hope to never hear about them again after this shitty display.

Doing gods work, Kris ive never commented on any of your videos the entire time ive been subbed but jesus, man... keep protecting and providing for the little man. love you and love your content!

Wow I respect you for your callous against a all around bad person not a bad company. You got my sub

Hey Kris, just a heads up, 7:49 to 8:16 is the same thing duplicated about their name being Artesian.

What’s crazy is that this is now. When RU-vidrs actually have enough power to change things. Back then you were probably just screwed with no outlet

This is why I love Kris so much he tells it how it is and he is so genuine

woah, the repeating section at 7:51 made me think I was going crazy. Watched it 4 times to confirm... yeah that was just repeating.

Thank you for doing the right thing and spreading the message. You are someone I admire for your honesty and integrity.

"All people are insane," he said. "They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons." -Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "Mother Night"

I was watching them one night on Noah's stream. They were doing a build for MVG Charity for an active duty soldier. Noah had stepped away for a few minutes (might have been getting food, don't remember). Someone in chat asked if this was the build for the veteran. The person in chat was told it was. The person then asked if they could use up all their bit points (this guy had hundreds of thousands of points) and upgrade the CPU. Alan (I think that was Noah's builder) said that he could. Now, if you look at the way someone can use their bits, one of the options was spending 590,000 bits to upgrade the CPU. So, the person spent all their bits (it was way more than 590,000). Noah finally came back in and saw this and his first response was no, you can't spend bits. I think at this point there was a very short discussion between Noah and Alan. Then Noah came back and said, but because it is a build for a veteran, he would allow it. Noah also made some comment about how this person got so many bit points.

OMG that's rediculous. A background check for a giveaway? This is a crazy story. Thank you for explaining

this Noah guy must have peaked during high school and now he’s constantly chasing after that part of his life just to feel that way again.

“Deserving of it” Definitely a red flag!

Great video thanks for filling us in on the tea!

You are legitimately the best Kris. Keep killing it.

I came from Luna's stream. And all I have to say is. Round of Applause!!! For once I am happy I'm broke because that was probably one of the only things that kept me from buying stuff from Artesian since I actually did look at their website. Thankyou for spilling the tea, and I am so sorry that you and so many others had to deal with them personally. Also.....the "Hey look Luna, a working PC" clip will never not be hilarious.

I actually didn't know much about them until recently when I was job searching and stumbled across them. I followed their RU-vid channel and it seemed pretty cool some of the stuff they were doing and thought it would be cool to work there so I applied. I got the interview and didn't hear back from them. Honestly, seeing everything I'm seeing now I'm really glad I didn't get hired.

Hi there, just happened to come across your video here. Very well thought out. I follow Jayztwocents and GamersNexus so I was aware of what went down. Other than stuff on youtube I don't do social media so watching your explanation and the others was very enlightening to say the least. As they say, loose lips sink ships, well same can be said about leadership within a business. When you showed the live stream of that giveaway it looked like to me that this guy was just going off the cuff. Heck, the tech didn't even look very impressed by what was happening.

Hi! New subbie. I really enjoy your commentary. Your personality is contagious! I hope I am not being too forward, but can I ask, what is the name of the song in your outro. I love it and I had to ask 😆😆

I appreciate you covering this in depth, I knew it was an issue but I was not aware of how deep it really went, thanks for the video as always kris :)

JayTwoCents is an amazing guy, he stepped in and made things right

Kristofer you do not miss, thanks for making videos like this that are concise and well done. Also LOL at him comparing to Linus 😂

I absolutely LOVE Luna and Kris interactions.

KRIS spitting facts... Luna also spitting facts. We love your RP streamer Luna.

This Noah is just typical toxic person that's rampant on the internet scene. Hopefully all this publicity will bring some legal action that will put him in his place. I know Jay actively asked for legal reps to get in on this.

I am actually looking to build/buy a PC as mine is getting to that time of being old (2016). So, thanks for the heads up! I always keep a look out for scams.

The ceo is like a walmart pc version of Chris Pratt starlord.

I bet it felt good to finally say they built PCs with faults, I believe people should really provide feedback to companies to improve their brand and if they don't listen it won't be long until it bites them in the back.

Ah yeah, the streamer got a PC from Jay Two Cents and EVGA instead, super nice of them.

A RU-vidr who gets very little in the way of sponsorship (apart from the games developers themselves) is Many A True Nerd. Cracking channel and so with it with their fan base its amazing

talk about perfect calm way of exposing the guy, nicely done.

I was ambassador of Artesian Builds, I am ps4 streamer, i have two youtube channels. I would have hated to get picked for winning a PC and get told, more or less, "you don't have enough numbers". I even contacted them shortly after what had happened, a very respectful message and then the terrible apologies came out, I left. Anyways, looking forward for the giveaway Krisofer! Crossing my fingers. Much Love

@KristoferYee I worked with Artesian as a twitch liaison your take on Noah is pretty spot on. The unfortunate fact is, most anyone else in management roles seem to carry the same attitude. There were and are a lot of great people working there. But this is a sinking ship until the whole house is cleaned.

ive been building PC's for a long time, professionally and personally. i can assure anyone considering or interested in buying a PC, you can build it yourself, cheaper, and better than what prebuilt companies charge. i dont care which brand, or company it is, theyre all charging you well beyond cost, and youre getting some less than good components, namely PSU's, Motherboards, and 'lesser' parts. modern PC components are keyed, they fit together like legos its near impossible to do wrong. there is no aspect of PC building you cant do yourself, unless you have a disability like not having use of your hands. it takes 30 minutes starting with an empty case, and in the long run, youre better off doing it yourself since you will have the knowledge to repair and replace down the road & help others. dont sell yourself short, and if you have any doubt you can easily watch a youtube video and get passed it. Then you can pass on your knowledge to friends and family.

Great video, just subscribed, one thing though: I worry about that like 23-degree sharp angle on your mic cable 😅 (I mean it's working, but I worry)

Great video amigo!!! Thanks for keeping us updated on this!

It is impressive how this type of people get a lot of recognition and just get greedy when they get into a famous point

amazing video, I didn't know about this situation at all until now. good to know this

Stumbled upon this video, and am glad I did. Great content. Well done.

Bro actually thinks he's anywhere near LinusTechTips? Lol. The delusion is real. And that _sigh_ in his "apology." 🤣🤣🤣 Bro did NOT want to say that.

if a computer overheats when playing league of legends, smh this is why i will always support building my own pc

Thanks for the crystal crisp clarification. I really wanted to know the context/background for this.

8:10 repeats itself

Thank you for making this video I really enjoyed watching. I am so happy this guy is getting called out for being scummy. Also love how you made to get the Luna snort on the video 😂. Keep making amazing content and being a genuine good person.

Bruh. Linus is like literally meta PC builder material. He's up there. This guy Noah is fucking cracked 😂😂

Missed your videos man!. Nailed everything you have said. Regards from Chile!.

I just laughed for the past 20 minutes. 😂 You just nuked this guy 20 times with etiquette and beauty. Glad to see you sticking up for the community and fellow friends.

Yeah the company and their stream always felt weird. They definitely wanted to buy their way into where they are without putting in work.

been watching my mans videos since 2017 i love Kristofer

Great video dude!! Not a streamer but I saved up and bought an [overpriced] $5k pc for gaming from artesian last October (since I don’t know how to build one) .. it was a flop. Def regret that decision.

I think you made a mistake in editing Kris. The scene of you talking from about 7:49 to 8:03 is repeated from 8:03 to 8:13.